Category Archives: Subway

Slippery Rail Syndrome Strikes Subways

Posted on December 10, 2009 by TJ

Outer-borough folks are learning what Metro-North riders have long known: Fallen leaves can severely foul up your commute. The MTA has posted signs on subway lines that go outside, reports the New York Times, warning riders to expect leaf-fueled delays. … Continue reading →

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Asperger’s Kid Spends 11 Days Hiding in Subway System

Posted on November 24, 2009 by TJ

There’s a heartbreaking Page 1 story in today’s NY Times about a 13 year old boy who, fearing a scolding at his Bensonhurst home, ran away and spent the next 11 days riding the rails. Francisco “Franky” Hernandez Jr. eluded … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Want to Hear What Happened 30 Seconds Later

Posted on November 23, 2009 by TJ

This week’s edition of the NY Times’ “Septuagenarians Say the Darndest Things” “New York Owns the Market On Witty Passers-By” “Metropolitan Diary” shows a teeming mob about to trample a not-exactly innocent 2-year-old. Dear Diary: There was an unusually long … Continue reading →

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Locked in the Train With a Murderer

Posted on November 23, 2009 by TJ

Some of us experience intense anxiety when thinking about being stuck in a locked subway car. Add a knife-wielding maniac to that bete noir, and you’ve got a fairly miserable evening commute. That’s what happend for 30 unfortunate straphangers on … Continue reading →

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Time to Make the Subway Cars!

Posted on November 12, 2009 by TJ

National Geographic has a special tonight on how New York subway cars are made. It’s a series called Ultimate Factories, which visits the production plant in Hornell, New York to see how the R160 cars come together. Actually, the NY … Continue reading →

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Suitcase Charge For Subways–Yup, Clyde Haberman’s At It Again

Posted on August 7, 2009 by TJ

Let’s start charging subway riders extra fees for hauling suitcases, bicycles and refrigerators on the trains, argues Clyde Haberman. Before we discuss this we have to establish who Clyde Haberman is and how he thinks. Clyde Haberman seems to have … Continue reading →

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MTA to Test Subway Spycams

Posted on July 29, 2009 by TJ

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will install surveillance cameras throughout an as-yet unidentified subway train later this year, reports the NY Times. The Authority hopes the cameras will deter crime, and may also help it avoid some lawsuits from those who … Continue reading →

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The Standing Up to Subway Thugs Debate Redux

Posted on July 24, 2009 by TJ

We’ve been (cyber)speaking quite a bit in these pages about strangers standing up to child abuse and those menacing crazy people on the subway. So it was with great interest that I read this bit about the arrest of Henry … Continue reading →

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Child Abuse on the Subway

Posted on July 13, 2009 by TJ

Interesting conundrum raised in the Metropolitan section of the NY Times yesterday. A man–and a few dozen other men and women–witnesses a child being slapped, over and over, by her teen mother on the subway. What do you do? Granted, … Continue reading →

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Why Metro-North Should Be Free and Why It Will Never Be

Posted on July 7, 2009 by TJ

A man with a far superior attention span to mine has passed along this think piece explaining just how much theoretical money goes down the drain when workers such as you and I sit in traffic en route to Manhattan–and … Continue reading →

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